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A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.

Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper's brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.

The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new idea since the creation of the Internet. Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires see the potential for a financial system free from banks and governments. More than just a tech industry fad, Bitcoin has threatened to decentralize some of society's most basic institutions.

An unusual tale of group invention, Digital Gold charts the rise of the Bitcoin technology through the eyes of the movement's colorful central characters, including a British anarchist, an Argentinian millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Bitcoin's elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Already Bitcoin has led to untold riches for some and prison terms for others.

I started listening to this audio book because I wanted to gain a better understanding of bitcoins, it's history, the key players in the industry, the technical aspects and potential future developments.

I was able to acquire the above mentioned knowledge by listening to this book, a great combination of narrative and technical explanations await you within the sound waves , jump in and you will set yourself on to the path of being well versed in the future of currency.

The Book provides a perfect overview over the rapid expansion of Bitcoins and the Blockchain and all the people involved in making Bitcoins as popular as they are nowadays.I recommend this book to everybody wanting to understand how the Blockchain works and why it is so important for us.

Names, names, names. More focusing on the people behind bitcoin than on the technology. So not recommended if you want to know how bitcoin works and how the story of this promising technology might continue.